Fridays for us are pizza and movie nights. I decided to go with the pizza theme when I came across this idea from ehow and adapted it slightly. I decided to assign toppings to different traits of being a friend. I helped the kids brainstorm different toppings for pizza. Then, I had them come up with ideas for how to be friendly or make friends. I wrote them down, and… {Read More}

Friendliness “A friend loves at all times…” – Proverbs 17:17A “The best way to make a friend is to be one.” A lot of time kids will complain that they don’t have any friends, but you see their attitude or actions and understand why that might be happening. This is definitely not always the case, and it’s hard to be neutral and see the situation clearly when it is your… {Read More}

Friendliness “A friend loves at all times…” – Proverbs 17:17A Today we took a look at the story of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10. The Parable of the Good Samaritan 25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” 27 He answered,… {Read More}

Friendliness “A friend loves at all times…” – Proverbs 17:17A Today we took time to read some books about being friendly and what it means to make and keep friends. We checked these books out at our church library. The books I found most helpful were: “Cody’s New Friends” by Clare Mishica “Being Rude” by Joy Berry “Good Knight, Duke” (Veggie Tales) by Ronald Kidd “The Problem with Pickles”… {Read More}

A big part of teaching kids to be friendly is helping them learn to just smile and say, “Hi.” This is said with no expectations. It is said with no pretenses. It is a simple gesture to show kindness and friendliness to others. Today we talked about smiling and saying hi to people. I asked Abby to do this on the playground to five people. As we were out and about, I… {Read More}

Friendliness “A friend loves at all times…” – Proverbs 17:17A We have now adopted “I Will” statements for our character development series. We made this cute board to highlight the focus phrases. I got the idea for “I Will” Statements from “Character First,” a character based curriculum. Although I haven’t used a lot of their content, I wanted to give them credit for this idea. Our four phrases this week are: 1. I will… {Read More}

Friendliness “A friend loves at all times…” – Proverbs 17:17A Definition: showing kindly interest and goodwill Reason Chosen: We want to teach our kids that we are kind and friendly to people because everyone was created and loved by God. We aren’t friendly because of what they can offer us. We are called to not show favoritism based by external appearances. We love because God first loved us. Part of… {Read More}